1765 Silkwork Sampler Mary Coxon. Framed in a modern wood frame with non-reflective glass. Loose mounted over card with card backing. The sampler is worked in silk on linen ground, in a variety of stitches. No border, divider lines in various patterns. Colours gold, cream, green, silver, blue and pink. Alphabets A-Z in upper case and lower case and numbers 1-5. Inscription reads 'If You Would Conquer This Rare Art> Your Working Mind Must Lazynes Subert'. Verse reads ' A Man That Doth on Riches Set His Mind strives To Take Hold on> shadows And he Wind With Food And Raiment Then Contented Be> Ask Not For Riches Nor For Poverty'. Signed and dated ' Mary Coxon Finished This Piece Of Work In The Ninth Year Of Her Age July 18 1765'. A scattering of motifs, including potted flowering plants, berries and butterflies.
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Dimensions
13ins by 12ins wide
Circa Date
George III, dated 1765
Description
1765 Silkwork Sampler Mary Coxon. Framed in a modern wood frame with non-reflective glass. Loose mounted over card with card backing. The sampler is worked in silk on linen ground, in a variety of stitches. No border, divider lines in various patterns. Colours gold, cream, green, silver, blue and pink. Alphabets A-Z in upper case and lower case and numbers 1-5. Inscription reads 'If You Would Conquer This Rare Art> Your Working Mind Must Lazynes Subert'. Verse reads ' A Man That Doth on Riches Set His Mind strives To Take Hold on> shadows And he Wind With Food And Raiment Then Contented Be> Ask Not For Riches Nor For Poverty'. Signed and dated ' Mary Coxon Finished This Piece Of Work In The Ninth Year Of Her Age July 18 1765'. A scattering of motifs, including potted flowering plants, berries and butterflies.
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